WEBVTT WHITNEY HAS THE STORY ALL NEW AT6:00.WHITNEY: EDWARDS DOES NOTNORMALLY LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THECASES WHILE THERE STILL INCOURT. >> IF I WERE TO WAIT UNTILLITIGATION WAS OVER, I MIGHT NOTBE PRACTICING LAW.I COULD BE 100 YEARS OLD.WHITNEY: THE FORT LAUDERDALEATTORNEY HAS ARE SPENT MORE THAN10 YEARS WORKING WITH VICTIMS OFJEFFREY EPSTEIN, THE DISGRACEDPALM BEACHER WITH UNLIMITEDFUNDS WHO PLEAD GUILTY TO STATECHARGES OF PROSTITUTION WITH AMINOR IN 200BUT, EPSTEIN SIGNED ANON-PROSECUTION AGREEMENT WITHFEDS MONTHS BEFORE.>> THE GOVERNMENT AND EPSTEINARE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE THEWHOLE THING GO AWAY WITH AS FEWPOSSIBLE.WHITNEY: EDWARDS SAYS IT WASKEPT QUIET AND HIDDEN FROM HISCLIENTS, JANE DOE ONE AND TWO.HE TELLS ME BOTH WERE UNDER WHEN THEY STARTED HAVING ASEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THEBILLIONAIRE AND PARTYING WITHIS HIGH-PROFILE FRIENDS.DOZENS OF UNDER AGE GIRLS CAMEFORWARD OVER THE YEARS OFLITIGATION, BUT EDWARDS SAYSTHERE ARE MORE.>> THE NUMBER OF GIRLS THAT HAVEBEEN PUT INTO THERAPY BECAUSE OFTHIS ONE INDIVIDUAL OR THISGROUP OF INDIVIDUALS IS JUSTASTRONOMICAL. WHITNEY: EPSTEIN SPENT A LITTLEMORE THAN A YEAR BEHIND BARS ANDWAS FORCED TO REGISTER AS A SEXOFFENDER. >> IT'S A REGISTERED SOFFENDER THAT HAS THE LARGESTHOME IN NEW YORK, THE LARGESPROPERTY IN NEW MEXICO, ANISLAND HE CAN RETREAT TOYOU CAN'T REALLY STOP ANYTHINGTHAT'S HAPPENING.WHAT HE'S DOING OR NOT DOING ISANYBODY'S GUESS.WHITNEY: AND WHILE EDWARDS SAYSEPSTEIN GOT OFF EASY, HICLIENTS WEREN'T SO LUCKY. >> JANE DOE ONE SUFFERS MOTHAN JANE DOE TWO AS ACONSEQUENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED TOHER IN THIS CASEWHITNEY: HE SAYS SOME CHOSSELF-MEDICATION.IN AND OUT OF INCARCERATION.>> HE NEVER HAD TO DO THAT.THIS REALLY IS AN UNFAIR SYSTEMWHICH REALLY JUST MAKES HER WANTTO DIG HER HEELS IN FURTHER.WHITNEY: EDWARDS SAYS THEGOVERNMENT FAILED THE VICTIMSAND HE AIMS TO PROVE IT NOMATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES.THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ISN'TCOMMENTINGEDWARDS SAYS HE ULTIMATELY HOPESINVALIDATE THE FEDERALAGREEMENT.

Brad Edwards said he doesn't normally like to talk about cases while they're still in court but Friday he made an exception.

"If I were to wait until litigation was over I might not be practicing law, I could be 100years old," said Edwards seated at the head of a conference table in his Fort Lauderdale law office.

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Edwards has already spent nearly 10 years working with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced Palm Beacher with unlimited funds who in 2008 plead guilty to stateprostitution charges with a minor.

Court documents revealed Epstein signed a non-prosecution agreement with the feds months before

."The government and Epstein are working together to make the whole thing go away with as few people knowing about it as possible," said Edwards who insisted it was

kept quiet and hidden from his clients Jane Doe 1 and 2.

He said the treatment was a violation of the Crime Victims Rights Act, a claim the US Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida vehemently rejected in a filing earlierthis month.

According to Edwards, both women were under 16 when they started having a sexual relationship with the billionaire and 'partying' with his high profile friends.

Dozens of under age girls came forward over the years of litigation with similar claims but Edwards insists there are more.

"The number of girls that have been put into therapy because of this oneindividual or this group of individuals is just astronomical," he said.

Epstein was released after spending a little more than a year behind bars and was forced to registeras a sex offender.

"He's a registered sex offender who has the largest home in New York, the largestproperty in New Mexico,an island he can retreat to," said Edwards. "Youcan't really stop anything that's happening. What he's doing or not doing isanybody's guess."

While Edwards insists Epstein got off easy, he said his clients weren't so lucky.

"Jane Doe 1 suffers more then Jane Doe 2 as a consequence of what happened to her in this case," said Edwards.

He said some women chose to self medicate in order to cope and have been in and out of incarceration.

"He never had to do that. This really is an unfair system which really just makes (Jane Doe 1) want to dig her heels in further," he said.

Edwards maintains the government failed the victims and said he aims prove it no matter how long it takes.

When reached by phone, a spokesperson for the US Attorneys office Southern District of Florida said there would be no comment.

Edwards said he ultimately hopes invalidate Epstein's federal agreement and looks forward to the next hearing sometime In August.